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November 4th, 2008 is the holy day now for Black people and for many disingenuous white liberals, who view the coronation of Barry “Barack” Hussein Obama with admiration, awe, tears and a day worthy of celebration and holy sacraments.

They view the man – Mein Obama – with unwavering loyalty and unquestionable belief in his gracious omnipotence. Obama’s supporters view Mein Obama the same way that the God-King Xerxes in the film 300, viewed himself: as a divine God, who merely walks among the mere mortals of the world, dispensing wisdom and guidance for the masses to follow.

It was Xerxes, in 300, who demanded of the traitor, Ephialtes that:

Unlike the cruel Leonidas, who demanded that you stand, I require only that you kneel.

However, unlike the fictitious words of Xerxes, Mein Obama has yet to make it mandatory to kneel before him, yet Black people have already fallen to two knees in submission to their leader. Disingenuous white liberals have followed suit, and like Ephialtes, decided to put their faith in a more benevolent faction:

“Newsweek editor Evan Thomas brought adulation over President Obama’s Cairo speech to a whole new level on Friday, declaring on MSNBC: “I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God.”

Mein Obama stands above the country and looks down upon with incredulous eyes that all of the country – the world – for that matter, hasn’t fallen in line with Black people who worship him as a God. After winning 96 percent of the Black vote on that glorious November 4th day, and standing firmly behind the uncooperative Henry Louis Gates in his battle with the relic of Pre-Obama America – white racism – Mein Obama has clearly positioned himself as the leader of Black America only.

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The country may have reached its Herb Stein moment in regard to health care. No, the spiraling growth in medical spending shows no sign of slowing down, let alone stopping. But the wrangling over President Barack Obama’s plan to extend health coverage is having the salutary effect of educating America about Stein’s law.

The moon is not made of cheese. There is no pot of gold over the rainbow. Medical spending, which already hoovers up one dollar of every six that we make, cannot keep growing until everybody has a personal doctor who works for nobody else.

Prediction: Obama’s proposal will end up as some kind of law by the end of the year. But no, it won’t eliminate wasteful care. It won’t extend coverage to everybody. It will increase the budget deficit. That said, it has a fighting chance of improving on the status quo, which suggests just how bad the status quo is.

But even if the legislation crashes and produces nothing more than a teachable moment about resources, scarcity and the impossibility of getting everything you wish for, it will have done some good. Thursday’s decision by Democratic leaders to delay a final vote on health care until the fall reflects how much is at stake and how botched the process has been so far.

“So let me be clear: If we do not control these costs, we will not be able to control our deficit,” he said at his Wednesday night news conference. “If we do not reform health care, your premiums and out-of-pocket costs will continue to skyrocket.”

But before this week he let the House of Representatives advance a bill with virtually no cost-control measures. The promises from the drug and hospital industries to cut billions in costs are meaningless without some sort of federal monitor and I don’t mean Congress – to make sure it happens.

Nor do Obama and Congress want to tax health-insurance benefits, which are now exempt. Taxing medical plans would not only accomplish the critical task of raising revenue to pay for expanded coverage; it would encourage cost control by removing a subsidy that disguises the true relative expense of health care.

Likewise, the plans so far contain no statutory limit that would cut off spending if growth got wild. They don’t put enough emphasis on wellness and prevention, either. And there is no “public” plan that would compete with private insurers and give a new job to the Woodlawn-based Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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Among white males, it increased 211 percent, to 51,562 men. That’s compared to a 78.8 percent increase for black females — the smallest increase in unemployment benefit claims among any of the four groups studied.

The study links the male job losses to cuts in the construction and manufacturing industries.

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Under the Democrats’ health care bill, if a medical school wants to increase its chances of receiving many different kinds of grants and contracts from the federal government, it should have a demonstrated record of training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups. This is because the Democrats’ health care bill requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to give preference to the entities that have demonstrated such a record in the awarding of these contracts to medical schools and other institutions.

The bill does not state what would qualify as a “demonstrated record”, so we can expect medical schools and the other entities to do whatever they think they can get away with to train as many “individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups” as they think they might need to have a better “demonstrated record” in this regard then other entities competing for the grants and contracts.

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